h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Silent Hill -The video game series. - A5541202
Author: Serephina.. with a degree in perviness - U191719

Re-submitting this ,Gred made me do it

Ged even

Ged, Serephina. Go get 'em girl!

excellent

Gred indeed

Ahem, is this really appropriate in PR?

He started it

I remember the run-up to this being released. I was in Atlanta for a trade show and Konami had a really impressive stand with a looped video promo of the game. The first thing that struct me was that the CG animation for the cut scenes (those higher-resultion scenes that bridge the action) looked photo realistic - it was the first time I'd seen CG animation in a game that looked almost real, and the characters had been designe dto look near normal (as opposed to a caricatured version of fantasy beauty like in most videogames.

Just a tiny pick-up:

"Originally released for the Playstation "

Can you change that to "Originally released for PlayStation"? No 'the' and a capital S in the middle of PlayStation. 'Playstation' needs changing to 'PlayStation' throughout the entry. I used to work for PlayStation, it's a hard habit to kick

One other thing is that 'fogging' in computer games is a technique where the backgrounds are drawn in gradually. It saves on polygons and is thought of as a cheat to remove the need for creating full environments. Silent Hill makes a real feature of this though as the fog feels really natural, and adds massively to the scary atmosphere of the game.

Personally, I didn't complete the first one; it was too nerve-shattering!

I'm playing the 4th one at the mo and having nightmares

Glad you put this back in!

"The stories are set in the fictional American town of Silent Hill. Originally just a small town with pretty surroundings, built up around Touloucca lake, it has grown in recent years due to tourist demand. There is however more to the town than meets the eye. A long history and connections with the occult leave a bitter aftertaste. More is hinted at than explained about the town's past during the games, but perhaps the need for some player interpretation and imagination is one of the things that contributes to the games' power to disturb. There are strong plotlines, well defined characters and truly spooky effects including the dense fog now synonymous with the game. Scary cut scenes and finding one's character in a boarded up old building one moment and a blood covered mirror image the next as the demonic Otherworld takes hold only adds to the experience!
What is the true nature of the town? No one can be sure, but many believe it is a reflection of the visitors own state of mind and personal nightmares, therefore different for everyone. All of the games feature levels of difficulty for both the action and puzzle aspects of the game."

You still need to make the second bit (from "What is the nature...." into a new paragraph.

I also think techinically, the names of the games, which are in italics, should probably be either subheaders or in bold as in:

Silent Hill (platforms it's on) - text text text etc...

Though I may be wrong. Then I think it will probably be ready!

Done

Do you want to change the film link to the official film site

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/

Will do !

Done

Anything else need doing to this?

'Twiddles thumbs'

The only thing I can see is this:

Silent Hill 2 (Playstation 2, Xbox, PC) and the director's cut1 of the same were next. Centring around young grieving widower James Sunderland, who receives a mysterious letter from his late wife Mary asking him to meet her in Silent Hill at their 'special place'! Can it really be from Mary? Is she still alive? James must delve deep into the mysteries and horrors of Silent Hill to find out.

all the others use the bold bit as a sort of subheader, so yo ujust need to change it to

Silent Hill 2 (Playstation 2, Xbox, PC)

Silent Hill 2 and the director's cut1 of the same were next. Centring around young grieving widower James Sunderland, who receives a mysterious letter from his late wife Mary asking him to meet her in Silent Hill at their 'special place'! Can it really be from Mary? Is she still alive? James must delve deep into the mysteries and horrors of Silent Hill to find out.

or something.

Other than that, I think it's ready.

Everyone happy with this Entry, anything else you'd like to add to it Serephina

Emmily

I think I've got everything..

Looks good to me... Nice one, S.
OK, let's all start ing for a scout
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